Chen Hao
Professor, Chief Scientist and the Executive Director of Beijing Key Lab of Study on Sci-Tech Strategic for Urban Green Development
【Profile】
Doctor of Geography, Professor at BNU School of Economics and Resource Management, Doctoral Tutor, Chief Scientist of Beijing Key Lab of Study on Sci-Tech Strategic for Urban Green Development, Distinguished Professor of the Leading Talents Introduction Program of Beijing Normal University. Current research focuses on environmental and ecological and regional economics. He was formerly a senior researcher at Clark University and the Chief GIS System Designer and Principal Investigator of Clark Labs between 2012 and 2016. He has published many research articles in world-class leading academic journals and published more than 60 academic publications in total. He formerly took charge of a number of key projects and sub-projects of the National Scientific and Technology Projects of the Eighth Five-year, the National Natural Science Foundation, government Ministries and Commissions and received many academic achievement awards, including nearly 10 Science and Technology Progress Awards such as the First Prize of 1998 Science and Technology Progress and Application Award of China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, the First Prize of 1997 Science and Technology Progress Award of Yellow River Conservancy Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources Relief Headquarters, and the First Prize of 1993 Science and Technology Progress Award of PICC.
【Publication】
【Book】
1. Expert & Co-author. 2016. Greening Road & Belt Initiative. A report of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), Beijing, China.
2. Expert & Co-author. 2016. China’s role in global context. Global Green Value Chains. A report of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), Beijing, China.
3. Chen, H. (2016). China Green Development Index Report 2016, Beijing Normal University Publishing Group. （《2016中国绿色发展指数报告》）
【Paper】
1. Chen, H. (upcoming). Impacts of aggregation of land categories on the accuracy of a land change model. Environmental Modelling & Software.
2. Parmentier,B., R. J. Eastman andH. Chen. (upcoming). Large area mapping in Alaska over the 2001-2009 time period: extraction of clusters from Seasonal Trends using segmentation and chain clustering. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geo information.
3. Shatz, A. J., J. Rogon, F. Sangermano, Y. Ogneva-Himmelberger, andH. Chen. 2013. Characterizing the potential distribution of the invasive Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Applied Geography, 45(2013): 259-268.
4. Chen, H. 2012. Design and Development of Land Change Modeler (LCM) for ArcGIS 10.950 Main Street, Worcester MA: Clark Labs.
5. Shatz, A., J. Rogan, Y. O. Himmelberger, and H. Chen. 2012. Creating and Analyzing a Time Series of Species Distribution Models: Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) in Worcester County, MA. Annual Conference of Association of American Geographers (AAG 2012), Feb. 24-28, 2012, New York City, New York.
6. Chen, Hand R. G. Pontius Jr. 2011. Sensitivity of a land change model to pixel resolution and precision of the independent variable. Environmental Modeling & Assessment.16: 37-52.
7. Machado, E. A., N. Neeti, J. R. Eastman, and H. Chen. 2011. Implications of space-time orientation for Principal Components Analysis of Earth observation image time series. Earth Science Informatics. 4(3): 117-124.
8. Chen, H. and J. R. Eastman. 2011. REDD scope. Tutorial. 12pp. 950 Main Street Worcester MA: Clark Labs.
9. Chen, H. 2011. Canonical Correlation Analysis. A chapter in the IDRISI Guide to GIS and Image Processing, J. R. Eastman. Clark Labs / Idrisi Project, 950 Main Street, Worcester MA: Clark University.
10. Chen, H. and R. G. Pontius Jr. 2010. Diagnostic tools to evaluate a spatial land change projection along a gradient of an explanatory variable. Landscape Ecology. 25(9): 1319-1331.
11. Eastman, J. R., F. Sangermano, B. Ghimire, H. Zhu, H. Chen, N. Neeti, Y. Cai, E. A. Machado, and S. C. Crema. 2009. Seasonal trend analysis of image time series. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1366-5901, 30(10): 2721-2726.
12. Zhu, H. and H. Chen. 2009. A quantitative evaluation of image segmentation quality. ASPRS 2009 Annual Conference, March 9-13, 2009, Baltimore, Maryland.
13. Chen, H., A. El Aarouani, and L. A. Lewis. 2008. Modeling soil erosion and deposition within a Mediterranean mountains environment utilizing remote sensing and GIS— WadiTlata Morocco. Geographica Helvetica-Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Geographie. 63(1): 36-47.
14. Aarouani, A. El, H. Chen, and L. A. Lewis, A. Tribak and M. Abahrour. 2008. Cartographie de l’utilisation du sol et de l’érosion nette àpartir d’images satellitaires et du SIG Idrisi au Nord-Est du Maroc. Revue Télédétection. 8(3): 193-201.
15. Pontius Jr., R. G., O. Thontteh, and H. Chen. 2008. Components of information for multiple resolution comparison between maps that share a real variable. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 15(2): 111-142.
16. Chen, H. 2007. Which gradients are associated with successes and failures of land change predictions. Annual Conference of Association of American Geographers (AAG2007), April 17-21, 2007, San Francisco, California.
17. Pontius Jr., R., O. Thontteh, and H. Chen. 2007. Map comparison to assess the prediction of vegetation response to El Nino in Southern Africa. The 7th World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (2007 IALE), July 8-12, 2007, Wageningen, Netherlands (http://www.iale2007.com/).
18. Pontius, R. G., Jr., and H. Chen. 2006. Land change modeling with GEOMOD. A chapter in the IDRISI Guide to GIS and Image Processing, J. R. Eastman. Clark Labs / Idrisi Project, 950 Main Street, Worcester MA: Clark University.
19. Chen, H. 2006. MultiLogisticReg. A chapter in the IDRISI Guide to GIS and Image Processing, J. R. Eastman. Clark Labs / Idrisi Project, 950 Main Street, Worcester MA: Clark University.
20. Lewis, L. A. and H. Chen. 2006. Sedimentation. A chapter in the IDRISI Guide to GIS and Image Processing, J. R. Eastman. Clark Labs / Idrisi Project, 950 Main Street, Worcester MA: Clark University.
21. Pontius, R.G., Jr., H. Chen, and O. Thontteh. 2005. Multiple scale pattern recognition and the foundation of observation-free statistics. Conference Proceedings of the Meeting of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. March 7-11, Baltimore, Maryland, 11p.
【Projects Involved】
1. 2016-2021(estimated time), “Creating Decision Support Information Engineering Center for Green Development Space”. Beijing Normal University Leading Talents Introduction Special Funded Projects. (Senior scientist and project leader)
2. 2016, “China Green Development Index Report Research”. Beijing Normal University. (Invited expert)
3. 2013-2016, “An Esri Cloud-based Implementation of the Land Change Modeler and Reorientation of Clark Labs Development to the Esri Platform”. Clark University, USA. (Chief Project and System designer)
4. 2012-2013, “Land Change Modeler (LCM) for ArcGIS 10.x.”. Clark University, USA. GIS application development project. Supported by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Conservation International. (Chief Project and System designer)
5. 2011, “REDD scope”. Clark University, USA. Supported by Google. (Chief Project and System designer)
6. 2006-2007. “Spatial Monitoring of Treads in Biodiversity through Time Series Analysis of High Temporal Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery”. Clark University, USA. Supported by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. (GIS model project leader)
7. 2006, “Species and Biodiversity Modeling for the Andes Region”. Clark University, USA. Supported by Conservation International. (GIS model project leader)
8. 2004-2005. “Land-use Modeling and Prediction for Biodiversity Conservation in the Andes”. Clark University, USA. Supported by Conservation International. (Core researcher)
9. 2008-2008, “Infrastructure to Develop a Human-Environment Regional Observatory (HERO) Network”. Co-project of Pennsylvania State University, Carnegie Mellon University, & Clark University. Major project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of USA. (Researcher)
10. 1998-1999, “Making the Beijiang Dike Flood Risk Chart”. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. Supported by the Ministry of Water Resources of the People’s Republic of China. (Project leader)
11. 1997-1998, “Trial of the National Flood Insurance Plan”. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. Major project supported by the Ministry of Water Resources of the People’s Republic of China and the Office of National Flood Control and Drought Relief Quarters. (Co-leader and one of the principal writers of the National Flood Insurance Trial Regulations Draft)
12. 1996-1997, “Guideline for Flood Damage Investigation and Flood Risk Chart”. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. Major project supported by the Ministry of Water Resources of the People’s Republic of China and the Office of National Flood Control and Drought Relief Quarters. (Co-leader)
13. 1994-1997, “the Causes of Urban Floods and Assessment of the Economic Loss”. Sub project of the major project City and Disaster reduction engineering. (Sub-project leader)
14. 1993-1996, “Countermeasures of Flood Risk and Disaster Reduction in Beijindi Flood Retention Basin”. Sub-project of the national 85 key project “Countermeasures of Flood Risk and Disaster Reduction in the Lower Yellow River beach area”. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. (Project leader)